Patrick Logan's Email

Does anyone know Patrick Logan's email (patricklogan.blogspot.com)? If so, can you forward a note to him that I want to reference this post in a column and need his title.

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SIGEvolution newsletter, interesting for two reasons

::: {.Section1} The first issue of SIGEVOlution, the newsletter of SIGEVO, the ACM Special Interest Group for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, is now available for you to download. Via http://feeds.feedburner.com/illigal?m=493

Obviously, if you’re interested in the subject matter, it’s a good read. It …

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USPS Tracking Stinks

Living in Hawaii makes you aware of the shortcomings of the USPS. I received a Christmas present on April 17 (and yes, it was sent in December). A few weeks ago, we Express Mailed some x-rays to Oahu, a distance of about 80 miles as the sooty shearwater flies. It …

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ANTLRWorks Seems an Incredible Tool for Domain-Specific Languages

::: {.Section1} Via a comment by Gregg Irwin, here's a REBOL-based control language \< ?xml:namespace prefix = o />for Excel by Robert Muench. (Wow, REBOL: There's a blast from the past!). Sample code:

goto cell "B6"  
change to "Testing"  
select "B7"  
set to "=B4 \* B5"  
select "A5:A9"  
change to "=\$B\$5 …
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Excel#: A Teaching Language

What with all the talk about language directions, I was thinking about a hobbyhorse of mine that spreadsheets are proven to be something that a lot of people "get" and that it behooves language designers to pay attention to them. Usually, I speculate about a spreadsheet-like development environment, but in …

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Microsoft .NET LINQ Preview (May 2006)

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Journalism and Memory

We received a letter on the SD Times reflector with lines such as "you guys mindlessly regurgitating the marketing hype of the self-congratulatory X committees....X is essentially nothing but a tacit admission...that the previous 4 versions of the spec were nothing but an incredibly expensive series of mistakes …

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Uh... Are Continuations Really Easy Once You Have Anonymous Delegates?

Can you just transform the scope subsequent to the callcc into a delegate, store it in your Continuation object, and then execute the delegate when it's called? Yes, you need compiler support (since you need to transform callcc() from a keyword or method call into the beginning of a new …

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DIY Augmented Reality Windshield HUD

casey mentioned that he wants to investigate augmented reality. Having played with the accelerometers on my M200, I'm leary of the challenge of maintaining orientation over many integrations in a handheld or head-mounted device. On a car, though, you can auto-orient using the GPS and a roadmap and there'd be …

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